Product Comparison: Amazon Fire TV vs Roku Premiere

Amazon Fire TV connects your HDTV to a world of online entertainment, letting you stream over 500,000 movies and TV shows in 4K Ultra HD, 1080p, or 720p. Use the included Alexa Voice Remote to easily find the content you love with universal search across more than 190 channels and apps, or discover something new with personal recommendations right on the home screen.

Roku Premiere delivers brilliant picture quality to your 4K UHD or 1080p HD TV with crisp, life-like images that practically jump off the screen. Get the visual rush of 4K Ultra HD streaming when using a compatible 4K TV and content. The Roku 4K Spotlight channel helps to find 4K content. Check with the channel provider for bandwidth requirements.

Alexa is a great addition. The ability to sideload Android apps like Kodi is the best. Even better if you are an Amazon Prime member. Enjoy

The user interface and OS is simple, straight forward and easy to use.

It works great with Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, and Netflix.

Lots of apps to watch including Netflix and Slingbox. I used this in Israel to watch my TV back home.

The new OS of fire TV is MUCH slower than the original OS. This new edition comes with it and the first edition has now been upgraded to it as well. I'm constantly restarting due to lagging and freezing, which I never ever had to do with the original software.

When it comes play back from a local file (DLNA, USB), it has literally no competition. It supports a wide range of A/V codec and containers (MPEG2/4, MKV, H264, DivX, True HD, HDMA, etc.) No other device comes even close

Another cool thing is that it can connect to bluetooth items.

I'm very impressed with how good the WiFi reception and speed is.

Simple remote (and a free app so you can turn your cell or tablet into a remote).

The Fire TV does NOT support NTFS disk partitioning! Therefore, you have to reformat any external hard drive as FAT32. After formatting to FAT32, BIG SURPRISE - you can NOT write to the hard drive!

The remotes seem overly delicate. My first remote unregistered itself and ceased to function within six hours of first use. My second remote (Amazon replaced for free) did the same thing, though I am fortunate in that it began working again.